The Penn's Grove record., 1887-08-06
FACrs ABOUT DANDY.
The Sort that Pays Best - what Il
Costs TO Run Candy Stores.

There is moro money in molasses
candy at the ordinary selling prices than
IN any other kind. Close to mOlasses
candy comes chocolate drops, caramels
and other candies in which sugar and
chocolate or plain flaYors are the ingre-
dient1 The candies on which there is
tho least profit in proportion TO the SELL
ing price are those which sell high. The
best confectiOner's sugar costs but little
over SIX cents a pound, and the best
grades OF molasses are not dear. They
and g little flavoring make molasses
candy, and that is why there is so much
proEt in it.
Th9re is another particular besides
good grades Of mOlassess or sugar and
iiavoring that makes a big difference in
tho quality of candy, and would ac-
count for the superiority of some candy
over other. That is the quality of the
cutter. Cheap confectioners do not use
eGtter at all. There are plenty of sub
Statutes for II, but one answers en-
tircly. One of the best known candy
men in New York, who has built up a
large business, starting from a small
tally shop, thinks that his use of 90
cent butter in his molaSSes candy has
done more to build up his trade reputa-
ton than anything else. lie gives as
the keynote Of candy success 'Pure
materials, fruit syrups and fine butter. "
The main expense in running a candy
store is rent and clerk hire. The rent
of o Broadway or Fifth avenue store
runs from s., 500 a year to SIS, 600, and
ono or two may be over that. The rent
on 4 pound of candy costs almost rs
much a the sugar. The clerk hire is
large in amount, as the candy trade is
not steady, but depends on the weather
and hours of the day. a fine after
loon will crowd the store and work
every clerk, while on rainy days they
have nothing to do but watch the flies.
The clerks are almost all girls, and get
from Sc to Sl3 n week. with n fore
woman at Sl5 or SIS. The clerk hire |
Of an uptown Broadway store is a little
more than the rental usually, though
there is one place that pays as much
rent as clerk hire.
As much candy of the best grades is
sold in summer as in winter, If not
more. The candy stores down town do
a big summer business, as business men
buy candy there to take to their wives
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box every little while to their girl who
is of at some summer resort. In the
winter the bulk Of the trade is by the
women themselves, who cause more
trouble than the men and do not buy so
much of the highest price. When q
man is buying candy he asks for the
best. while a woman prices the candies
she does everything else.
a woman'S candy store can always
be told from . mans candy store by
noticing whether there Is a soda water
fountain and some tables to sit down
at. A man does not go to a candy
store but to a drug store for whatever
soda water he may want, but a woman
prefers a candy store to have q soda
water and ice cream attachment.
Some of the candy stores are accused
of running liquor attachments in the
back room reserved for ice cream tables,
but as men do not 90 there o male re-
porter has no way Of finding out except
BY heaTSay whether there is q secret for
men in the guise of an ice cream parlor.
The best paid man in q candy establish
ment Is the designer Of new candies.
His pay is $50 or $50 a week, while the
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or $40. There Is always a demand for
new candies with new names. Each
new thing invented has its run Of popu-
larity for . little while, and then is suc-
eeeded 10y something else. The candy
man who puts the most taking novel
ties on the market at the right time is
the 4 who makes money. There is a
constant demand, not only for new can
dies, but for new favors and designs in
old standbys. Molasses candy Is as old
as any form Of confectionery, yet there
are new iiavors and forms Of it appear
ing every little while, and caramels and
chocolates continually turn up with
some French name pTefxed to them. A
man who can invent such things is
worth money and is rare.